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LowEndGeek

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

Dell Vostro 1400

Intel core 2 duo cpu 1.8 Ghz
3GB RAM
Intel GMA965 video card 256MB

everything works just fine, I haven't found anything yet that doesn't work

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imkentjr

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

System76 Pangolin Performance (panp5)
Everything works after a little configuration (touchpad)
I havent tried to configure the fingerprint reader, but i dont like using it!

Phry

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Registered: 2013-06-29

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

Asus UX31-E-RY009V Zenbook - Everything works just fine, exept for the WLAN-Fn-Key whose LED is sometimes on when it should be off and vice versa- but who cares?

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d3xtr

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

Acer S7 191. Everything works great. Secure boot disabled.

WonderWoofy

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Acer S7 191. Everything works great. Secure boot disabled.

For anyone that might read this thread, I just want to point out that Arch Linux does support secureboot now.  The install media includes secureboot support.  But for your system, like everything else in Arch Linux, you will have to learn about and set up the FSF prebootloader manually.  But it is packaged now in the official repos.

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johskar

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

Asus UX31-E-RY009V Zenbook - Everything works just fine, exept for the WLAN-Fn-Key whose LED is sometimes on when it should be off and vice versa- but who cares?

ASUS Zenbook Pro UX32VD-R4002H (Slightly upgraded with a 250GB SSD and 10GB ram total)

Everything works fine on Intel graphics, haven't tried setting up switching between the on-cpu intel and the discrete Nvidia chip or doing it with secure boot yet.
^^ Except that the keyboard backlight and WLAN-Fn-Key Led doesn't always do as told... :-)

clfarron4

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

HP Pavillion G6-1306: AMD A4-3305M, AMD Mobility 6480G HD, 4GB RAM, 1TB disk. Dual-boot with Windows 7.

H/W path        Device      Class       Description
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                            system      HP Pavilion g6 Notebook PC (B1R22EA#ABU)
/0                          bus         3566
/0/0                        memory      128KiB BIOS
/0/b                        memory      4GiB System Memory
/0/b/0                      memory      SODIMM [empty]
/0/b/1                      memory      4GiB SODIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1333 MHz (0.8 ns)
/0/10                       processor   AMD A4-3305M APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics
/0/10/11                    memory      256KiB L1 cache
/0/10/12                    memory      1MiB L2 cache
/0/100                      bridge      Family 12h Processor Root Complex
/0/100/1                    display     Sumo [Radeon HD 6480G]
/0/100/1.1                  multimedia  BeaverCreek HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6500D and 6400G-6600G series]
/0/100/4                    bridge      Family 12h Processor Root Port
/0/100/4/0      wlo1        network     RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter
/0/100/5                    bridge      Family 12h Processor Root Port
/0/100/5/0      eno1        network     RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
/0/100/6                    bridge      Family 12h Processor Root Port
/0/100/6/0                  generic     RTS5209 PCI Express Card Reader
/0/100/11                   storage     FCH SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
/0/100/12                   bus         FCH USB OHCI Controller
/0/100/12.2                 bus         FCH USB EHCI Controller
/0/100/13                   bus         FCH USB OHCI Controller
/0/100/13.2                 bus         FCH USB EHCI Controller
/0/100/14                   bus         FCH SMBus Controller
/0/100/14.2                 multimedia  FCH Azalia Controller
/0/100/14.3                 bridge      FCH LPC Bridge
/0/100/14.4                 bridge      FCH PCI Bridge
/0/100/16                   bus         FCH USB OHCI Controller
/0/100/16.2                 bus         FCH USB EHCI Controller

Toshiba Satellite Pro C850-15T: i3-2370M, Intel Graphics 3000, 4GB RAM, 500GB disk. Dual-boot with Windows 7 (Yes, not 8).

Both work in the current set-ups. I don't know what the story would be if the Satellite Pro came with Windows 8 (as advertised on the Toshiba website), but I'm not complaining.

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Dokan

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

Toshiba Satellite U300 - 102

Satellite U300-102
Código: PSU30E-00S00NSP

    Windows® Vista® Home Premium
    Intel® Centrino® Duo (Intel® Core™2 Duo T7100)
    Wifi Intel® 4965AGN  Chipset Intel® GM965
    Toshiba TruBrite® WXGA TFT
    2560 (2048 + 512) MB
    RAM DDR2 (667 MHz)
    Intel® GMA X3100
    1,8 kg

http://www.toshiba.es/discontinued-prod … -u300-102/

Works fine but with a sound problem (alsa or hardware).

progandy

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Sony VAIO VPC-EB2H4E
Everything works wihtout any problems.
http://www.sony.co.uk/support/en/product/VPCEB2H4E

H/W path         Device  Class          Description
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                         system         VPCEB2H4E (N/A)
/0                       bus            VAIO
/0/0                     memory         64KiB BIOS
/0/4                     processor      Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU       M 350  @ 2.27GHz
/0/4/5                   memory         128KiB L1 cache
/0/4/6                   memory         512KiB L2 cache
/0/4/7                   memory         3MiB L3 cache
/0/9                     memory         4GiB System Memory
/0/9/0                   memory         2GiB SODIMM DDR3
/0/9/1                   memory         2GiB SODIMM DDR3
/0/100                   bridge         Core Processor DRAM Controller
/0/100/1                 bridge         Core Processor PCI Express x16 Root Port
/0/100/1/0               display        Park [Mobility Radeon HD 5430/5450/5470]
/0/100/1/0.1             multimedia     Cedar HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5400/6300 Series]
/0/100/16                communication  5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller
/0/100/1a                bus            5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller
/0/100/1b                multimedia     5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio
/0/100/1c                bridge         5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1
/0/100/1c/0      wlan0   network        AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
/0/100/1c.1              bridge         5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2
/0/100/1c.1/0            generic        MMC/SD Host Controller
/0/100/1c.1/0.1          generic        R5U2xx (R5U230 / R5U231 / R5U241) [Memory Stick Host Controller]
/0/100/1c.1/0.4          generic        MMC/SD Host Controller
/0/100/1c.2              bridge         5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 3
/0/100/1c.2/0    eth0    network        Yukon Optima 88E8059 [PCIe Gigabit Ethernet Controller with AVB]
/0/100/1c.5              bridge         5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 6
/0/100/1d                bus            5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller
/0/100/1e                bridge         82801 Mobile PCI Bridge
/0/100/1f                bridge         Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller
/0/100/1f.2              storage        5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller
/0/100/1f.3              bus            5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller
/0/101                   bridge         Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers
/0/102                   bridge         Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder
/0/103                   bridge         Core Processor QPI Link 0
/0/104                   bridge         Core Processor QPI Physical 0
/0/105                   bridge         Core Processor Reserved
/0/106                   bridge         Core Processor Reserved

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WonderWoofy

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

@progandy, what did you use to get that HW printout like that?

adamrights

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@WonderWoofy, he's using 'lshw' with the '-short' format, so the terminal command is, which is recommended to run as root would be:

sudo lshw -short

clfarron4

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@WonderWoofy, he's using 'lshw' with the '-short' format, so the terminal command is, which is recommended to run as root would be:

sudo lshw -short

Ou... I've updated one of mine, and will the other to include this...

Does the following code mean I have a spare slot for RAM? I think that is how it reads...

 /0/b/0                      memory      SODIMM [empty] 

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chap

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Asus X5MS-N53SV

Everything is working except from the Nvidia GPU, I'm not using it here atm because I don't need it.

firekage

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Registered: 2013-06-30

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Acer E1-531

Acer AOD 270 (Atom N2600). On AOD 270 resume doesen't work because of the 3-rd party driver (intel is at fault, but they didn't make this chipset, it is producent by other company, so after resume screen is corrupted).

Everything works ok, even with fn keys and changing brightness of LCD backlight sceen.

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botika

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Lenovo Thinkpad 430u,

AUR is the best I've ever seen.

nourathar

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alienware m11x r2

everything worked out of the box, since I am on Arch I've been also managing the discrete graphics card with bumblebee and bbswitch.

CryptAck

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Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook

Minor issues with touch pad, but that's been pretty uniform across distros. Can't adjust the brightness with standard Fn + F4 / F5, likely something small to fix, but doesn't work OTB. I had troubles on another distro where turning off bluetooth killed wifi, haven't tried it on here yet, but my assumption is MMV.

VanillaFunk

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Satellite L755--- all works fine

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adamlowe

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Re: Laptops which run Arch

Acer Aspire 5750-6845
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2430M CPU @ 2.40GHz
8 gigs of RAM
Broadcom Corporation BCM43227 802.11b/g/n

Linux version 3.10.1-1-ARCH

The only problem that I had was wifi and I'm using broadcom-wl.

papajonpizza

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How did you get that Linux 3.10.1-1-ARCH?  I run full updates everyday (just did one just now, and didn't see an update to Linux 3.10  yet.  Are you running x86_64?

Maybe I gotta read the news 

Acer Aspire 5750-6845
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2430M CPU @ 2.40GHz
8 gigs of RAM
Broadcom Corporation BCM43227 802.11b/g/n

Linux version 3.10.1-1-ARCH

The only problem that I had was wifi and I'm using broadcom-wl.

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HalosGhost

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How did you get that Linux 3.10.1-1-ARCH?  I run full updates everyday (just did one just now, and didn't see an update to Linux 3.10  yet.  Are you running x86_64?

See [testing]

Maybe I gotta read the news 

Yes, yes you do.

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papajonpizza

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Thank you HalosGhost.  I thought I was running [testing] but just examined pacman.conf and it is disabled by default.  Just as well.  My Arch is super stable. Thanks again.

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WonderWoofy

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Thank you HalosGhost.  I thought I was running [testing] but just examined pacman.conf and it is disabled by default.  Just as well.  My Arch is super stable. Thanks again.

It is probably a good idea to stick with non-testing repos unless you are actively prepared to have to fix your system at some pint or another.  Also, it you run [testing] you should definitely be subscribed to the [arch-dev-public] mailing list so that you can see the happenings in [testing].  By doing this, you will also see drafts of the news before they are posted to the front page, as you will be dealing with these packages before they hit [core].

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...unless you are actively prepared to have to fix your system at some pint or another.

I've a difficult time fixing my machine after one pint or another 

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WonderWoofy

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I think one is probably okay.  But a few might make it difficult for most, and for me, I might abandon computing altogether, start drinking heavily and then find my way back onto the H train... so I probably shouldn't do that.